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Los Angeles (AFP) - A Southwest Airlines flight returned to Denver after an engine cowling fell off during takeoff on Sunday, the Federal Aviation Administration said, the latest in a spate of safety incidents involving Boeing planes. The FAA said in a statement that Southwest Airlines Flight 3695, a Boeing 737-800 passenger jet, landed back at Denver International Airport "after the crew reported the engine cowling fell off during takeoff and struck the wing flap." The plane, which took off at 8.15 am Sunday (1415 GMT) and was bound for Houston, was towed to the gate after landing and the FAA...
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New York (AFP) - Southwest Airlines temporarily grounded all US flights Tuesday due to a technology problem, delaying more than 1,700 departures and hitting its share price. The domestic-focused US carrier "requested that the Federal Aviation Administration pause the airline's departures due to an internal technical issue at Southwest," US regulator FAA said on its Twitter feed near 1430 GMT. But near 1510 GMT, the FAA said "the pause has been lifted their service has resumed." In a statement after the outage ended, Southwest said the problem stemmed from "data connection issues resulting from...
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Baltimore (AFP) - Thousands more flights were canceled across the United States on Wednesday, with no end in sight to days of travel misery as the country digs out from a deadly superstorm. Officials in Erie county in western New York -- the area of the country hardest hit by the massive winter storm -- lifted their death toll to 37, taking the national total to at least 59. Around-the-clock work to restore electricity continued in the county's main city of Buffalo, with the number of outages down to 128 residents, Mayor Byron Brown told CNN later in the day. Another kind of crisis was playing...
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New York (AFP) - Southwest Airlines said Thursday that recent flight cancelations will cost the company $75 million as it confronts an ongoing labor crunch that has forced it to scale back capacity. The domestic-focused US carrier canceled more than 2,000 flights earlier this month due to problems with bad weather exacerbated by staffing shortages. Staffing levels "fell below plan" after Southwest was "aggressive" in ramping up capacity, Chief Executive Gary Kelly said in a statement. "We have reined in our capacity plans to adjust to the current staffing environment," Kelly said. "We are aggr...
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New York (AFP) - After initially blaming air traffic control issues and weather for thousands of flight cancelations, Southwest Airlines on Monday acknowledged that staffing shortages also played a role in the service disruption. The carrier cancelled 1,124 flights on Sunday -- by far the highest rate of any airline -- 800 the day before and another 326 on Monday, according to airline tracker FlightAware. "On Friday evening, the airline ended the day with numerous cancellations, primarily created by weather and other external constraints, which left aircraft and crews out of pre-planned posit...
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Washington (AFP) - Southwest Airlines cancelled more than 1,000 flights Sunday, part of a major weekend service disruption that the carrier attributed to weather and air traffic control issues. The carrier cancelled 1,085 flights and counting on Sunday, or about 29 percent of its schedule -- by far the highest rate of any airline -- and delayed more than 900 others, according to airline tracker FlightAware. More than 800 Southwest flights were scrapped Saturday, FlightAware said. Southwest said in statement that the weather challenges began at Florida airports at the start of the weekend, and ...
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New York (AFP) - Citing the drag from the Delta variant of the coronavirus, Southwest Airlines on Wednesday warned of weaker revenues in the current quarter as bookings slow. Southwest, a domestic-focused US carrier, said its third-quarter revenue outlook had "worsened by an estimated three to four points" compared with the one it released last month. "The Company has recently experienced a deceleration in close-in bookings and an increase in close-in trip cancellations in August 2021, which are believed to be driven by the recent rise in COVID-19 cases associated with the Delta variant," Sout...
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New York (AFP) - US carrier Southwest Airlines was ramping operations back up Tuesday after canceling some 500 flights following a second major outage in 24 hours due to computer issues. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a 45-minute nationwide ground stop at the airline's request that concluded at around 1830 GMT, an FAA spokeswoman said in an email. "Today, we've proactively canceled roughly 500 flights due to the outage, and we're working with those customers to get them to their destinations as quickly as possible," a Southwest spokesman said. The issue is the second in less ...
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New York (AFP) - US carrier Southwest Airlines grounded its flights on Tuesday due to a problem with its reservation system, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said. "The FAA issued a temporary nationwide ground stop at the request of Southwest Airlines while the company resolved a reservation computer issue," the regulator said on Twitter. The problem is the second in a 24-hour stretch for the domestic-focused carrier, which delayed more than 1,400 flights across the United States on Monday due to problem with a third-party weather data provider. At 1950 GMT, Southwest said on Twitter ...
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New York (AFP) - US carrier Southwest Airlines agreed to buy 100 additional Boeing 737 MAX planes, the companies announced Monday, in a vote of confidence for the aircraft after a 20-month grounding. The order, which includes options on another 155 new MAX planes, is the biggest for the model since regulators cleared it to resume service in late 2020 following two deadly crashes that sent Boeing into a crisis exacerbated by the industry downturn during the pandemic. Southwest's order is worth $12.5 billion at catalogue prices, which are almost never paid. The announcement means Boeing could bu...
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